A film on the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. Image of Adolf Hitler speaking at a rally earlier in the war, with translation of some of his words superimposed on the image. Stone heaps in a European city following bombing in World War 2. A sign for Hazelaarstraat (area of Amsterdam, Netherlands.) Rubble of destroyed buildings. The ruins of a church. Closeup views of address numbers in a city, including 6, 24, and 40, each followed by scenes of rubble and twisted metal. Woman emerges from a cave dwelling with a young child. A sad woman holding a young child. Close-up view of a rat emerging from a hole in a wallboard, walking directly toward camera position. Person placing a blanket on a crying baby. A sign board on a street reads, "Danger: Typhus carried by lice." Children (possibly Italian) gathered with water vessels near a well, collecting what appears to be dirty water. A boy lying in a hospital bed, with images of Christ and Italian writing above bed. Hand taking down a hospital chart record. "Napoli" visible on chart implying Naples, Italy. Hungry men, women, and children in Greece, living in poverty, are seen scavenging for food from trash cans. Sign on wall behind reads, "ΚΟΣΜΙΚΟΝ." Arms of women holding water pitchers, standing in a group waiting for water. A desperate looking woman holding a half-clothed sleeping child in her arms. A young boy holding the leg of an adult and crying. A carriage of a undertaker or funeral service driving away on a street.
A munitions and armament factory in Germany during World War II. Men work to produce war armament and war materiel. The production of gun barrels. Close up views showing inspection of rifling of gun barrels. German artillery, mortars, and other heavy guns being produced. Semi-finished artillery being produced. Men work on the artillery. Newly manufactured German rifles move forward on an assembly line in rifle racks.
Prisoners of war (POW) held in custody by U.S. Army in North Africa, during World War 2. German troops of the Hermann Goering Division, some of which are wearing SS camouflage smocks, and Italian prisoners of war enter a U.S. Army processing station in North Africa. They stand with hands on their heads. U.S. soldiers inspect their identification tags. Several U.S. soldiers stand and converse.
A film titled 'That Justice Be Done' on preparations that are made for prosecution of war criminals shortly after the end of World War 2 in Europe. The statue of the third U.S. President Thomas Jefferson at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC, United States. Flashback of German Chancellor Adolf Hitler addresses people at a Nazi Nuremberg Rally. Many German officers and soldiers seated in a hall and cheering with Nazi salutes. Views of civilian atrocity victims, killed by Nazi German soldiers during the war. Corpses of men, women, and children victims of mass shootings and killings. Mutilated bodies of several people on a field. Women crying. Bodies of U.S. soldiers in uniform shot in the back, in violation of established rules of warfare. Victims of Nazi prosecution. Dead bodies of emaciated concentration camp victims piled up on carts drawn by mules for burial, led by a man wearing a gas mask. View of a Nazi night rally with soldiers carrying torches. A Nazi book burning event, with brownshirt SA Nazi soldiers and civilians throwing books into a burning outdoor fire at Bebelplatz in Berlin in 1933.
Preparations made for prosecution of war criminals following World War 2. Exterior of building of U.S. Supreme Court. 'Equal Justice Under Law' written on building. Animation shows three types of trials. The first kind is the one in which the criminals are returned to the countries they betrayed. Minister-President of Norway Vidkun Quisling being tried in Norway. The second kind is one in which the criminals who committed crimes in specific localities are on trial in those countries. Germans being tried in a country. Offenders charged with killing U.S. soldiers are tried by American Army Corps. An officer speaks about the trials. A chart depicts kinds of trials. The National Traitor Trials, the Local Minor Trials, the U.S. Military Trials and the Trials of the Major War Criminals conducted by the International Military Tribunal. View of Hitler and Nazi leadership walking up aisle in crowded building with German soldiers and officers on either side saluting. Rudolf Hess delivering a speech and shouting emphatically, followed by views of other German leaders (later Nuremberg defendents) delivering speeches. Goebbels in dress uniform. U.S. Justice Robert H Jackson, being appointed by President Truman for the U.S. as Chief of Counsel for the tribunals, and also General William J. Donovan. Tribunal legal staff in front of U.S. Army Air Forces Air Transport Service terminal at Washington National Airport, and then boarding a DC-4 aircraft. DC-4 takes off, with the Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial seen in the background. Mussolini addressing a crowd from an elevated balcony. View of book Mein Kampf with image of Adolf Hitler on front cover. German SS Schutzstaffel division marching in formation on a German street. Josef Kramer under armed guard, after being captured in his role as Commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. SS Commander Heinrich Himmler talking to a German officer. Dead Concentration Camp victim and living camp victims beside barb wire (Buchenwald).
The Russian Campaign of World War II. Russian prisoners of war moving in columns escorted by German soldiers in Russia. The prisoners moving along the bank of a river. Several views of the war prisoners.
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